Sex, Symbolists and the Greek Body
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 20 May 2021
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350194564
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 232x154x18 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 bw illus 172
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Long description:
This book explores Symbolist artists' fascination with ancient Greek art and myth, and how the erotic played a major role in this. For a brief period at the end of the 19th century the Symbolist movement inspired artists to turn inwards to the unconscious mind, endeavouring to unveil the secrets of human nature through their symbolic art. But above all their greatest interest, and fear, was man (and woman's) sexuality. Building upon the traditions of Academic neoclassicism, but fired with a new zeal, they turned back to Greek art and myth for inspiration.
That classical legacy was once again a vehicle for artists to express their dreams, ideas and revelries. And so too their anxieties. For at times the frightening spectre of the sexual unconscious drove them to a new and innovative engagement with antiquity, including in ways never before tried in the history of the classical tradition. The unnerving sirens of Gustave Moreau, unearthly heroines of Odilon Redon, or leering fauns of Felicien Rops all played their role, among others, in this novel and unprecedented chapter in that tradition. This book shows how in their painting, drawing and sculpture the Symbolists re-invented Greek statuary and transposed it to new and unwonted contexts, as the imaginary inner worlds of artists were mapped onto the landscapes of Greek myth. It shows how they made of the Greek body, whether female, male, androgyne or sexual other, at once an object of beauty, desire, fear, and - at times - of horror.
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations
Introduction
Context
Symbolists and the Classics
The Greek Body
Sex and the Symbolists
Part 1 - The Female Body
Aphrodite - As Object
Medusa - As Danger
Sphinx - As Mystery
Part 2 - The Male Body
Endymion - As Idol
Faun - As Instinct
Ganymede - As Androgyne
Part 3 - The Other
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
